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Diode-Bridge Voltage-Controlled Attenuator
Public Unreviewedby John Lauer
Two-layer through-hole audio attenuator: four 1N4148s as a current-biased shunt bridge, 0 to 2 V control, designed by Saif Abdessayed with Adom Hydrogen
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John Lauer
Saif Abdessayed's diode-bridge VCA: KiCad project, Gerbers, BOM, simulations, reports, and the earlier RC filter test
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Circuit: * diode-bridge voltage-controlled attenuator
Doing analysis at TEMP = 27.000000 and TNOM = 27.000000
Using SPARSE 1.3 as Direct Linear Solver
Initial Transient Solution
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Node Voltage
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vcc 12
vee -12
ctrl 0
ctrlf 0
in 0
bufin 0
buf 0
out 0
bra 11.8059
bra_i 11.8059
brb_i 11.8059
brb 11.8059
brp 11.9896
brn 11.6743
opout -6.27596e-06
sense 6.27596e-11
base -6.22105e-06
bop#branch 1.16835e-11
e_buf#branch 0
vin#branch 0
vctrl#branch 0
vee#branch 0
vcc#branch -4.7278e-07
No. of Data Rows : 10001
Measurements for Transient Analysis
vout_pp = 9.684249e-02 from= 2.000000e-02 to= 3.000000e-02
vin_pp = 9.999938e-02 from= 2.000000e-02 to= 3.000000e-02
gain = 9.68431e-01
Fourier analysis for v(out):
No. Harmonics: 10, THD: 0.158702 %, Gridsize: 200, Interpolation Degree: 1
Harmonic Frequency Magnitude Phase Norm. Mag Norm. Phase
-------- --------- --------- ----- --------- -----------
0 0 7.60838e-05 0 0 0
1 1000 0.0484282 -0.0086654 1 0
2 2000 7.64968e-05 -90.26 0.00157959 -90.251
3 3000 7.41895e-06 0.679505 0.000153195 0.68817
4 4000 3.72753e-07 90.0471 7.69703e-06 90.0558
5 5000 1.90379e-08 14.0725 3.93117e-07 14.0812
6 6000 8.60698e-09 88.77 1.77727e-07 88.7786
7 7000 8.7094e-10 166.422 1.79841e-08 166.431
8 8000 1.44831e-10 60.1739 2.99063e-09 60.1826
9 9000 3.41303e-11 89.4166 7.04761e-10 89.4253
Total analysis time (seconds) = 0.183
Total elapsed time (seconds) = 0.203
Total DRAM available = 3647.488 MB.
DRAM currently available = 571.852 MB.
Maximum ngspice program size = 21.945 MB.
Current ngspice program size = 14.074 MB.
Shared ngspice pages = 11.637 MB.
Text (code) pages = 6.156 MB.
Stack = 0 bytes.
Library pages = 2.699 MB.